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Best Hotel Deals - What's the Best Site to Get Deals on Hotels?
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Which websites to use to get the best discounts on hotel bookings? Looking for tips, methods or tricks for getting the lowest rates. Help a brother out! Going on vacay soon and wouldn't mind saving a few bucks.
Top Comment: Just book directly through the hotels. Get a AAA card. Ask if they have discounts for a nearby local university, which you are somehow a graduate of despite never having studied there. For the love of all that is holy, stay tf away from third party sites. They'll take your money, deliver the shittiest service they can, then blame the hotel for their mismanagement when things go poorly for you. Also, American Express Preferred Hotels and Resorts uses Expedia to book their rooms. Avoid like the gd plague, unless you enjoy dealing with TWO separate third party systems.
What's the best way to get the cheapest hotel rooms in 2024?
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I used to use Hotwire a lot, but I feel the discounts they offer these days aren't really that much better than booking.com but for less flexibility. I've just found out about Hotel Tonight and the deals look really good. Is there anything else that might be better? Curious to hear what's your experience been?
I also read a very old post that if you call the hotel for a same day booking, they can give you a 20-40% discount on the lowest price that third party sites offer, since that's the amount of commission those third party booking sites get anyways. Would this still work in 2024?
Edit: to add my question is primarily USA-geared for my travels this year but also curious to hear hacks specific to other countries in the future.
Top Comment: I read Clark Howard's consumer blog (he's a former travel agent) and he always recommends looking around for the best hotel deal you can find and booking a refundable room, then continuing to check for deals and if you find something better later you can cancel the first booking.
Tips on getting best/cheapest rates for hotels?
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I'll be going out of town for a wedding in September, but i figure to start planning for hotels in advance. A reddit search came up with this thread which is from 2012. I'm wondering if much of this information is still valid, and if there are any new layers that weren't mentioned before.
Some of the notable tips i got from the thread...
-Always contact and book through the hotel directly. Never book through a 3rd party site like Expedia or Priceline.
-Price search online deals, then call to see if the hotel can beat that price
-Being nice to hotel staff goes a long way in getting the best deal. Leave any pissy or entitled attitudes at home
-Slipping some extra money to the front desk agent may get you a little extra for your stay
Would you say these tips are still relevant today? Is there anything else to add, whether it's a "do" or "don't"
Top Comment: I have always made the reservation with the actual hotel. it may not be the cheapest, but it is the easiest to get a problem fixed and you definitely have the room you want. i call and make the reservation on the phone not the website
Best Site To Book Hotel Reservations
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Which website will give you the lowest prices for hotel stays?
Top Comment: Hotel Manager here... There are basically only a few companies. Expedia is the largest and they own hotels.com , travelocity, orbitz, trivago, vrbo, and a few others. Booking Holdings owns priceline, agoda, kayak, booking.com and a few others. They are basically all the same thing. Now, within those sites, it is about the way you book. You can book prepaid and not prepaid. If you book not prepaid, it is basically the same as going through the hotel's website. If you book prepaid, you pay them and then they (Expedia, etc) send over their one-time use credit card and we charge that. A prepaid reservation is usually cheaper but you better be sure this is what you want. The hotel can't change it. We can cancel the reservation but this really only just refunds EXPEDIA's card... not yours. We can't change names, dates, length of stay.. nothing. To get it changed, you have to call them and jump through about a million hoops and they blatantly lie to you. Also, remember that the hotel's rates are usually up front. If it is $149, it is just that plus tax. Expedia, etc. Will list it as $134 +tax and then they throw on a $15 service fee essentially making it the same as going through the hotel. Also, at my hotel, if you book through a 3rd party, you do not get breakfast because the food cost is offsetting the commission fee that we have to pay on these reservations. TL/DR version - book through the hotel. it will save you hassle, you may lose other perks, and the rates are going to be about the same.
New York hotels
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My husband and I are vising NY for the first time at the beginning of April. Being from London, I expected hotels to be expensive but not as expensive as my searches are letting on. Every hotel is minimum £1.5k for 6 nights for something super basic. Is this normal? Totally fine if it is but just want to check I'm not missing anything! Also, we would like breakfast included as we do like a big buffet to start our day on our trips but this doesn't seem standard. On tik tok (my only reference of NY at the moment), everyone seems to go out for food. Does anyone have any advice, please? Any hidden gems? Thanks so much!
Top Comment: 200 a night is cheap for NY
What’s the best website to book hotels?
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Hey everyone, I’m planning a trip soon and looking for the best hotel reservation site to use. I’ve checked a few booking websites, but it’s hard to figure out which one actually offers the best deals and has good options.
Are there any cheap hotel reservations sites you’ve had good experiences with? Or even just solid hotel websites with reliable reviews and prices?
I’m open to any suggestions, especially if you’ve got tips for snagging good deals or how to compare options across different hotel reservations websites. Thanks in advance!
Top Comment: After owning a hotel for 23 years I can safely say they all have flaws. They will all try to pressure you by suggesting that rooms are in short supply, that they have the best price....not true. They also make monumental fuck ups, wrong rooms, too many people to a room and on one classic occasion where one site charged a group for four rooms but booked three with us causing a screaming meltdown in the middle of our hotel as we were booked out for a wedding. If you are actually booking the rooms remotely by yourself then please ensure that you read the room info. We only had ten rooms and offered single ( supplement) twin, double, family etc. you would be amazed at the number of humans who turned up mob handed after booking a room as a single, and no we didn’t let it go.😊😊😊 My best advice is choose any of the big sites and don’t assume all is well, either check with the site or the hotel before travelling..
What 3rd-party hotel booking site is the best?
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I’m trying to book a hotel and I will use a 3rd party platform because I can pay over time. Which one is the most legitimate and which one offer the best coupon codes?
Top Comment: I recommend skipping the middleman and book directly with the hotel.
I just found a trick to get cheaper bookings that I wanted to share
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Whatever website you use to find your place, just make sure to find that place in Google Travel (click in "Hotels" in the top bar). For some reason, almost all places that I ended up booking were cheaper through Google Travel because the links from Google Travel that redirect to the website you were booking usually apply a discount.
I mean, come to think of it, you could as well just use Google Travel directly.
Ok, I feel stupid now sharing this. Anyways, I just wanted to point out that apparently Google Travel apply discounts that you wouldn't get if booking directly from whichever website you were using like booking.com .
Top Comment: Just remember cheapest and 3rd party sites mean customer service is through the 3rd party seller. So if something happens that disrupts your travel plans, you have to deal with the 3rd party, and not the hotel directly. To each their own, but peace of mind with booking directly is why I’ll spend the few extra dollars.
Is a cheap last minute hotel really a myth?
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As the title says, the Mrs and I have the night off and thought we'd head to Leeds for the night. Just looking at accommodation and the cheapest we can find is £117 travel lodge not even in the centre!
Is this how it always is these days or am I missing something? Or maybe I'm just getting old?
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